News: Ubisoft, VC Funding, Vantrix, Kakiloc, Université de Montréal

By Heri Feb 18th 2007 in Business, video games

WellingtonFund reports that Montreal is #3 in VC funding The first city is Toronto, the second is Ottawa. However, Vancouver is close behind Montreal, and 14 start-ups didn’t announce their raise. Draw your own conclusions…
Ubisoft expands its Québec operations. Ubisoft CEO believed Montréal has an “immense creative potential”, and apparently, the city has still lots of untapped talent. Jobs will be created by hundreds, and they are multiplying initiatives to get the best talent
Vantrix Corporation has named Manish Jha as CEO Vantrix is a solution provider for the cell phone industry, and solves interoperability problems when dealing with multimedia.
Benjamin Yoskovitz organized a successful Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, Tuesday 13th
Kakiloc, a mobile social network for Montreal, is entering beta version soon
Université de Montreal is proud to have the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Canada. The altix 4700, from SGI Canada, has 384 processors, 1534 Go of RAM, and can handle 4,9 teraflops.

Celebrating Montreal’s technology talent: Showcase your talent in front your peers

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MTLNewTech #39 with Echoer, Ruumies, TagMyDoc, Wikimeta, Ziliko

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GrowLab Event Coming to Montreal. Let’s talk Start-ups!

Start-up accelerator GrowLab and Dealmaker Media have put together a tour with a group of great people to talk about the reality of being an entrepreneur. If you have a start-up or you’re thinking about it, you need to be there to join the discussion. Here are some of the questions that will be addressed: [...]